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Food for the Brain: The promise of cognitive-health functional foods

Food for the Brain: The promise of cognitive-health functional foods | #CornerInsure #Brain #Health #Food | Significant changes in the food industry in the last decades have affected what we eat, resulting in certain nutritional deficiencies or nutritional imbalances.

One example is omega-3 fatty acids, whose consumption has declined in parallel with a huge increase in consumption of omega-6 fatty acids.

As the nutritional content of our food changed, many turned to nutritional supplements to fulfill certain needs in their diet, giving rise to a huge industry of dietary supplements, composed mostly of capsules, tablets, and softgels, closer in form to drugs than food. In recent years, however, “pill fatigue” has been an issue, and consumers have started looking for alternatives to tablets and capsules.

Led by Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), University Health Network (UHN) and General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada (GDLS-Canada), researchers have designed a non-invasive ventilation mask that could significantly reduce aerosolization—the production of airborne respiratory droplets that may contain viruses or bacteria—when treating patients with COVID-19. The new device aims to reduce infection […]

The first study to report use of the rheumatoid arthritis drug anakinra to treat COVID-19 patients found that high-dose anakinra was safe and was associated with respiratory improvements and reduced signs of cytokine storm in 72% (21/29) of patients, according to results from patients studied for 21 days (enrolled from 17 to 27 March 2020) […]